The 1866 treaties freed enslaved people in Native nations but did not secure full inclusion. This piece examines Freedmen citizenship, land, and ongoing legal battles.
The Heathen School: When Education Became a Christian Technology of Control
Founded in 1817, the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut sought to remake Native American and Pacific Island youth into “godly men.” This InnerKwest investigation examines how early American education functioned less as learning and more as a Christian technology of control.